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Wind up your baseball tour in Cooperstown, N.Y., where, lore has it, the game began more than a century ago. Make your way to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the repository of such memorabilia as the bat Babe Ruth used for his "called shot" in 1932 and the uniform Hank Aaron wore the night he hit his 715th career home run. Plan to get there for the annual Hall of Fame weekend, July 25-27. Festivities include the induction of this year's new Hall of Famers--including Don Sutton and Larry Doby--autograph sessions and the 52nd annual Hall...
...Pentagon once again last week had to defend its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. It was implemented in 1994, after a debate between the White House, which wanted to let gays serve openly, and Congress and the military, which did not. The compromise ostensibly protected gays in uniform so long as they didn't flaunt their sexual orientation. But the number of personnel kicked out of the service for being gay soared from 617 in 1994 to 997 last year. The Pentagon says that 80% of those removed in 1997 declared their homosexuality; they told. Gay-rights groups...
EQUAL BUT UNEQUAL Even in the military, where living conditions and access to health care are relatively uniform, black women are more likely to die of breast cancer than their white counterparts...
...outside world, Yan's grandfather reactivated old international links from before the 1949 communist revolution. (Granddad had founded Tianjin's branch of the Rotary Club in the 1920s.) Yan got a Rotary scholarship and was the first high school student in China allowed to go abroad. Wearing his school uniform, he took a train to the Hong Kong border. A family friend met him, bought him clothes, a watch and a Playboy-brand belt. Seven days later, he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand. "My hosts met me at the airport," he recalls. "I really didn't have enough English...
...Pentagon once again last week had to defend its ?Don?t ask, don?t tell? policy. It was implemented in 1994, after a debate between the White House, which wanted to let gays serve openly, and Congress and the military, which did not. The compromise ostensibly protected gays in uniform so long as they didn?t flaunt their sexual orientation. But the number of personnel kicked out of the service for being gay soared from 617 in 1994 to 997 last year. The Pentagon says that 80 percent of those removed in 1997 declared their homosexuality; they "told." Gay-rights...